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Figure 4-11-1
Client
—the device (workstation) that requests access to the LAN and switch services and responds to requests from the
switch. The workstation must be running 802.1X-compliant client software such as that offered in the Microsoft Windows XP
operating system. (The client is the
supplicant
in the IEEE 802.1X specification.)
Authentication server
—performs the actual authentication of the client. The authentication server validates the identity of
the client and notifies the switch whether or not the client is authorized to access the LAN and switch services. Because the
switch acts as the proxy, the authentication service is transparent to the client. In this release, the Remote Authentication
Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) security system with
Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
extensions is the only
supported authentication server; it is available in Cisco Secure Access Control Server version 3.0. RADIUS operates in a
client/server model in which secure authentication information is exchanged between the RADIUS server and one or more
RADIUS clients.
Switch (802.1X device)
—controls the physical access to the network based on the authentication status of the client. The
switch acts as an intermediary (proxy) between the client and the authentication server, requesting identity information from
the client, verifying that information with the authentication server, and relaying a response to the client. The switch includes
the RADIUS client, which is responsible for encapsulating and decapsulating the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
frames and interacting with the authentication server. When the switch receives EAPOL frames and relays them to the
authentication server, the Ethernet header is stripped and the remaining EAP frame is re-encapsulated in the RADIUS
format. The EAP frames are not modified or examined during encapsulation, and the authentication server must support
EAP within the native frame format. When the switch receives frames from the authentication server, the server's frame
Summary of Contents for NS3702-24P-4S
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Page 102: ...102 Figure 4 5 4 LACP Port Configuration Page Screenshot ...
Page 119: ...119 Figure 4 6 4 VLAN Membership Status for Static User Page Screenshot ...
Page 124: ...124 Figure 4 6 6 Private VLAN Membership Configuration page screenshot ...
Page 140: ...140 Figure 4 6 21 Group Name to VLAN Mapping Table Page Screenshot ...
Page 164: ...164 Figure 4 8 2 Multicast Flooding ...
Page 184: ...184 Figure 4 8 15 MLD Snooping Port Group Filtering Configuration Page Screenshot ...
Page 204: ...204 Figure 4 9 6 QoS Egress Port Tag Remarking Page Screenshot ...
Page 209: ...209 QoS Class QoS Class value can be any of 0 7 DPL Drop Precedence Level 0 1 ...
Page 251: ...251 Figure 4 11 3 Authentication Method Configuration Page Screenshot ...
Page 286: ...286 Figure 4 11 11 RADIUS Server Configuration Screenshot ...
Page 290: ...290 Figure 4 11 17 Add User Properties Screen Figure 4 11 18 Add User Properties Screen ...
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Page 349: ...349 Figure 4 16 2 PoE Configuration Screenshot ...